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Pronounced: (nay-tal-IZ-oo-mab)
Warning
Natalizumab increases your risk of getting a rare but very serious (sometimes fatal) brain infection (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy-PML). This risk may be higher the longer you use natalizumab and if you are also using other medications that weaken the immune system, such as other multiple sclerosis (MS) treatments (such as interferon) or immunosuppressants (such as azathioprine). (See also Side Effects...
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From Our Experts
Inflammatory Bowel Disease News: Tysabri, Accutane and More
There have been a few items in the news lately related to Inflammatory Bowel Disease that I thought prudent to pass along to... Read more »
Prospects for Tysabri Therapy Treatment
Our thoughts are with the patients and families in Europe who recently developed PML (Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy) on... Read more »
Tysabri: It Comes Down to Choices
An article in the August 1 edition of The Wall Street Journal reports that two patients treated with Tysabri have contracted progressive... Read more »
Suspected PML Cases For Biogen/Elan MS Drug (Tysabri) Not Alarming
(Dow Jones) - “Tysabri...caused 22 suspected cases of a rare brain infection through early October...a level deemed unalarming by... Read more »
Tysabri Linked to PML Again
Tysabri has been in the news again this week. Last Friday the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) announced that they would review the... Read more »
From Our Sources
Tysabri may regenerate myelin in MS patients
New research suggests that the drug Tysabri may regenerate and stabilize damage done to the myelin sheath in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In... Read more »
MS med Tysabri approved for Crohn's
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the multiple sclerosis med Tysabri for use in people with Crohn's disease. But the FDA warns... Read more »
Tysabri helps some MS patients avoid relapse: study
According to a new study, Tysabri significantly increases the proportion of disease-free patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) compared... Read more »
Drug may help Tysabri-related brain infection
Researchers are reporting that a potential treatment for a sometimes fatal side effect of the multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Tysabri is currently under... Read more »
FDA updates Tysabri safety information
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated the safety information for the drug Tysabri to take into account the incidence of a rare brain... Read more »
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